VISUAL INTERACTIVE SEARCH

摘要

Roughly described, a system and method for user identification of a desired document, in which a database is provided which identifies a collection of documents in an embedding space, the database identifying a distance between each pair of the documents in the embedding space corresponding to a predetermined measure of dissimilarity between the pair of documents. In dependence upon a user query, the system constrains the embedding space geometrically to develop a first candidate space, and identifies toward the user a first set of N1>1 candidate documents from the first candidate space, the first set of candidate documents being more discriminative than the average discriminativeness of set size N1 documents in the first candidate space. Preferably the placement of the documents as presented to the user is indicative of the placement of the documents in the embedding space, either in distance or in collinearity or both.

主权项

1. A method for user identification of a desired document, comprising:
providing, accessibly to a computer system, a database identifying a first plurality of documents in an embedding space, the database identifying a distance between each pair of the documents in the embedding space corresponding to a predetermined measure of dissimilarity between the pair of documents; in dependence upon a user query:
the computer system geometrically constraining the embedding space to develop a first candidate space, andidentifying toward the user a first set of N1>1 candidate documents from the first candidate space, the first set of candidate documents having fewer documents than the first candidate space and being more discriminative than the average discriminativeness of set size N1 documents in the first candidate space; and taking action in response to user selection of a document identified toward the user.